Drama Flashcards

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a type of religious drama in the Middle Ages based on stories about saints or martyrs

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Miracle play

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Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults.

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Morality Play

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a play concerned with the last week in the life of Christ

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Passion Play

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a drama that represents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to i

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problem play

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5
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lacks dramatic reality in its presentation of middle-class emotions and tenderness

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sentimental comedy

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what we find in dictionaries: literal meanings of words

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Denotations

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the associated meanings a word may have beyond its literal or denotative meaning

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Connotations

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A witty and risque satire of upper-class etiquette and beliefs

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comedy of manners

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A play lacking dramatic reality in its presentation of middle class emotions and tenderness

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Sentimental comedy

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10
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a play the addresses a social problem or issue

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problem play

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a poem of lament or mourning

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Elegy

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narrative poems in short stanzas that were often sung

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ballads

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13
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a revival of the style and attitude of ancient Greece.

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Neoclassicism

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a mock epic imitates an epic in structure and features a mundane event that is made to appear ridiculous through the use of elevated, lofty language.

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mock epic

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Literature of the Romantic age emphasized emotions and creativity

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Romanticism

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A character that is defiant, flawed, and brooding; resembling the poet, Lord Byron

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Byronic hero

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believed that the ideal spiritual state goes beyond ordinary experience

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Transcendentalism

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unmetered lines of no particular length modeled on speech patterns

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free verse

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use more than one word to name a person, place, thing, or abstraction. tree house, bookcase, street lamp, football

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Compound Nouns

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name a physical object. piano, dime, picture frame, candlestick

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Concrete Nouns

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name a concept or idea freedom, acceptance, happiness

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Abstract Nouns

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name a group of things or people. herd, gaggle, team, bouquet, audience, bunch

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Collective Nouns

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name a specific person, place, thing, or abstraction. Queen Victoria, Fiji, the Hope Diamond, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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Proper Nouns

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indicates who or what is doing the action. It’s often placed at the beginning of a sentence before the verb. A giant coast redwood can grow to heights exceeding 350 feet.

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identifies to whom or to what the action was done. Direct objects are usually placed after the verb in a sentence He climbed the redwood quietly, listening to the creaks of the old tree.
direct object
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answers the question “For what did the action occur?” or “For whom did the action occur?” She gave all the love she had to the venerable redwood.
indirect object
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A word that defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun or word to another element in the sentence Ex: in, over, because, after
preposition.
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provides more information about a noun.
appositive
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Part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject
Subject complement
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links the subject or subject complement; unlike action verbs, linking verbs don't describe the subject doing anything; provides more descriptive information about the subject
linking verb
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part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject
predicate noun
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word a pronoun stands in for
antecedent
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defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word or element in the sentences
prepositions
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contains a verb and related objects in a sentence
Predicate